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Leontine

Girls' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Leontine has been given to 1,150 babies in the U.S. since 1883. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Leontine, 2015

1 in 617,000

Leontine over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leontine: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leontine means

Leontine is a given name.

The naming story behind Leontine

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Leontine in its glossary. The entry labels it feminine and points to printed page(s) 77.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Ger. Fr. lion like”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Leontine, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,150 girls were recorded with the name Leontine between 1883 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 32 in 1918; its best national rank was #716 in 1887.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Leontine?

Leontine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 617,000
6 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only
1 in 297,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
427,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leontine sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 427,624 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leontine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leontines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leontine was born before 1921 — so the typical Leontine is around 104 today.

Median birth year
1921
About 104 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
21.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.52%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
136
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1920s — 21.0% of all recorded uses (241).

Is Leontine rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1918 (32)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#716
1887

Spellings of Leontine

Leontine is not the most common spelling — Leonie is, with 66.0% against Leontine's 34.0%.

  • Leonie66.0%2,231
  • Leontine34.0%1,150

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Leontine is used

Across 1910–2025, Leontine was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 146,764 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 33,333
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Leontine has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Leontine around the world

Where Leontine ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2020–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020
  • France
    1900–2025
    #508
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Leontine by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#716
1887
Peak year
1918
32 that year
First recorded
1883
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
1,150
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Leontine

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Leontine

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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